>> anxiety, and more. get a personalized treatment plan. 100% online@forhours.com. >> good morning. 11 a.m. eastern, 8 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. we begin this hour at the white house, where any minute now, president trump will welcome the president of el salvador, nayib bukele, to the white house. bukele is the first leader from latin america to receive this invitation from the president since his white house return. the two leaders will hold a meeting as el salvador plays a critical role in president trump's efforts to launch the biggest deportation program in u.s. history. the visit comes as the white house is facing questions from a federal judge about the deportation of a maryland migrants to el salvador. the administration says it was a mistake. joining us now, nbc news senior white house correspondent gabe gutierrez. nbc news correspondent david noriega joins us from pico union

in los angeles, the most salvadoran neighborhood in the u.s. nbc news senior homeland security correspondent julia ainsley and veronica cardenas, former assistant chief counsel for immigrations and customs enforcement. so, gabe, what are these two leaders looking to achieve in this visit? >> hello again. >> good morning. >> how's. they laid it out quite nicely. we're expecting president bukele. >> here any moment now. >> but he has become this key ally. >> for. >> the trump administration. >> as this mass. >> deportation operation. as the administration tries to. >> ramp it up. >> and both leaders have gotten closer over the years. similar in many. >> ways. >> for example, in. dealing with the press, also the focus. >> on on violent. gangs in el salvador. >> last few years, very popular in the country for cracking down on. violent crime. but also. >> critics say that. >> he's rolled back civil liberties. >> so this. >> visit comes. >> amid this. >> global trade war. >> where el salvador is.

>> every other country. >> is. >> also facing 10% tariffs. so we expect the administration, we. >> expect to talk. >> about that also. just before this trip. >> the state. >> department is now updated. >> the travel advisory. >> advisory for. >> el salvador to. >> level one. >> which is the safest type of country. >> but quickly, jose, you. >> mentioned that this. >> all comes. >> as the deportation battle. continues with. >> that maryland man. >> who was deported to el. >> salvador, a. >> justice department lawyer. >> saying that he. >> was mistakenly deported. >> but a short time ago. >> a top white. house aide, deputy chief of staff. >> stephen miller arguing the. >> point that the. >> administration now does not. >> believe he was mistakenly sent. he didn't. >> directly answer the question. >> whether that. >> would come. >> up here at the white house. >> today, but he did signal that president. >> trump likely would not ask for. >> him. >> the maryland. >> man, to be. >> returned. >> even though. >> there has. >> been a court order to facilitate that. >> the white house. >> trying. >> to argue that facilitate and

the interpretation of that word, that they don't have to effectuate the return, just if he were to send back, they would need to facilitate that. so obviously, jose, this battle is ongoing. but the president expected to receive his key ally. >> here within the next few moments. >> gabe gutierrez at the white house, thank you so very much. so, julia, what's the significance of buckley's leadership in the eyes of the trump administration? i mean, their partnership has been in a in a way, kind of short lived in in the sense that he didn't really have a lot of the president of the united states didn't have a lot of communications with buckley, even though one of his sons did go to buckley's inaugural. >> that's right. there's also. >> the there's the way the. >> white. >> house looks at it and the way. >> the courts are going to look at it. jose and. >> i'll talk. >> about both. but one is that there's been a warming relationship between this. administration and buckley. >> as you know. >> secretary of state marco rubio visited el salvador as one of the first visits from the trump administration right after the inauguration, where buckley

first threw out the idea of even having americans being held in that prison. >> something the president. >> said he would now. >> consider. >> if it's legal. secretary of state kristi noem has also been inside that prison. there have been. >> a lot. >> more communication between the two countries since. trump took office. >> especially because. >> it centers around that c-cut prison. and as the. >> administration might. >> struggle to really deport the millions they wanted to, they can point to scott as. >> a possible. >> possibility for crossing the border illegally, or even being in the us legally and having your status revoked. that is as strong of a tool as they can have to try. >> to deter. future migration. and so it's a really key partnership. >> the way. >> the courts look. >> at it, though. is we've. >> heard it argued. >> in court that, of. >> course, the. >> trump administration can get these men back from prison because secretary noem was. >> inside wearing her. >> $50,000 watches. >> they point out. that obviously, there's. enough of a relationship to be able to send noem inside, to be able to bring buckley to the white house here, that they should be able to ask

for the return of mr. abrego garcia, that man from maryland who the trump administration has admittedly said was sent there as a. >> result of an. >> administrative error. and so really, the more this. relationship warms. >> the. >> harder it is. for the trump administration to argue in court that they have no power over receiving anyone back, getting anyone out of that secret prison without el salvador just. deciding to do it on its own. >> yeah. i mean, veronica, how uniquely significant is buckley and is el salvador to president trump's deportation efforts? >> i think it's really. >> important. >> especially because trump. >> does not want. >> to clog the immigration courts. he wants people. >> to self-deport. he wants people. >> to be. >> removed quickly. and this. >> is one. >> way that he can do that. >> the supreme court. >> has spoken that the. >> way to challenge. >> this. >> is through individual individuals bringing. >> forward habeas. >> cases, which can. >> be time consuming, and. >> it must. >> be in. >> the locations where they are currently held. so this will be

one. stop to the trump administration. but the. >> problem is. >> is that when people are being. >> removed in this. >> way. >> there's no notice given. >> and so. >> that may be one of. >> the hurdles. >> that. >> individuals will have. >> in challenging. >> this type of removal. >> what do you mean? what is that? what's that? what's the biggest hurdle there other than the obvious? >> well, the fact that. >> people aren't being told when they're. >> being deported to el salvador. >> or that they are. >> even. >> being deported. and so a lot of people have described. >> this. >> as being disappeared. >> and so. >> people don't know where their family members are. >> lawyers don't know where. >> their clients. >> are until they. >> show up in some type. >> of video. >> and in. >> el salvador. >> david, you've been talking to members of the salvadoran community there in los angeles. what are you hearing from them? >> well, so just. >> to set the scene a little bit. >> i mean, a. >> bakery here in. >> pico-union, which has the largest salvadoran population anywhere in the. >> united states. >> this bakery is a bit of an institution. it's been here for 20 years. i've been talking to people here all morning. >> salvadorans are very.

>> politically engaged people. everyone is aware of buckley's visit to the white house. everyone has. opinions and it's complicated. on the one hand, buckley is. very popular. people like that. he has, in their words, sort of cleaned up the gang problem. but some people have misgivings about these. deportations to the mega prison in el salvador, to scott. so i talked to the owner of the. bakery again. he's had this business for about. >> 20 years. >> came from el salvador before then. i asked him first about abrego. >> garcia, a maryland man who was deported by the. >> administration's own. >> admission, mistakenly. >> to the mega prison in el salvador. >> here's what he said. take a listen. have you. >> heard. >> of the case of abrego? garcia, what do you think. >> of that? >> no, no, porque. >> estamos en in. >> sistema de. >> so it says that poor. >> young man, once he's in that prison, there's. >> no easy way. >> for him to get out. that's what the whole prison is designed for. once you're in there, you kind of can't. >> get out. >> but, you know, just to put this in context, we'll say

oscar, the owner of the bakery, had told me that. >> he. >> really approves of building this prison and putting what he described as salvadoran criminal actors in that prison, because the way people talk about it is this changed. >> the. >> situation in el salvador from one where people were. >> afraid to. >> leave their homes, afraid to move around their neighborhoods because of the gang problem, who are now living in freedom as they describe it. so it's really, really driven up. he's one of the most popular leaders in the entire world, but people are also a little bit wary of the relationship between bukele and trump. a number of people today, for example, have described it to me as a business relationship, a monetary relationship. there's millions of dollars at stake, people kind of joking about coming to the. >> us. >> to. >> you know. receive these million dollar payments. i asked oscar as well, what he thinks about the fact that the trump administration is now deporting people. to the mega prison, not just abrego garcia, but the general relationship. what he said, i thought was pretty interesting. take a listen. donald trump has been working closely with nayib bukele. including deporting some people. >> to. >> the prison in el salvador. >> what do you think of that?

>> bueno esta no lo no lo veo porque haber sido a. tratos a. mas empleos no entre dos personas como nada mas dijeron. >> el congreso. >> no ha. >> dado no. >> ha hecho un tratado con el salvador. no ni la asamblea legislativa de el salvador ha hecho un tratado. >> entre. >> los dos presidentes. >> es un. >> tratado entre dos. >> presidentes sin reglas. >> establecidas. >> si transparencia, pero todo. >> transparencia. >> establecidas vayamos a saber hasta cuando el tiempo tenemos a esa gente. >> see. >> this is very interesting. so he's saying even though he approves. >> of bukele, that he. >> doesn't love the. >> fact that. >> trump is. >> deporting people to the mega prison there because there was no clear agreement between the two countries, transparent agreement between the two countries. >> it's just this sort.

>> of obscure deal between the two presidents. >> jose, at the end of the day, salvadorans, the ones that i'm talking to. >> here today, they don't just want security in their country. they also want democracy. they want economic opportunities. and while the security problem seems for now to have been largely addressed, they're a little bit worried about what some of them describe as a slide towards authoritarianism or authoritarianism or autocracy. >> yeah. the there has also been this incredible change in the country. you know, tourism is on the increase. they just opened surf city two in the oriente of the country, in an area that was during the war, just devastated. there's been so much change in that country. and julio, we are also learning new details about the arrest of a tufts university student as her attorney to seek her release. what are they saying? >> yeah. >> that's right. this was. >> the case of removing. >> reza öztürk. >> who was that. >> tufts university student. >> who's. >> video of her. arrest really. >> went viral? >> jose. >> she was the one who was walking home. >> she was. >> on the phone. >> she says, with her. mother on

her way to visit friends to break her fast for ramadan, when she was approached by men who were not in nice uniforms, they were completely, plainly dressed. clothes we. >> now understand. >> from her account about her arrest and her detention. >> that she. >> says. she thought she was being basically kidnaped, that these. >> weren't ice agents. >> because they wouldn't identify themselves, and she'd already had some people from conservative websites really targeting her. so first she was worried that's who these people were. and then. since she's been detained, she says that she hasn't had adequate access to food and medical care. in fact, she says that she's. >> been needing. >> her inhaler for her asthma. now, we've not yet seen the government respond to those particular claims. but overall, when the news of austrac's arrest came up, the government really doubled down and they said that any foreign. students who are here on visas or even green cards, in some cases. >> that is all. >> basically grounded on the fact that they have to be friendly toward u.s. foreign policy. and if. >> they've done anything. >> that might be seen as adversarial, in the case of öztürk, simply be a byline.

>> on an. >> op ed that was pro-palestinian, a really calling for peace. between israel and gaza, that that is one of the reasons why she would have been having her visa revoked and, and be a target for arrest by ice. we should also point out, jose, we just reported last week that there's a new task force that's been. stood up inside dhs. specifically to go through every single foreign. >> student in. >> the united. states and see if there are any grounds to revoke their visas, whether that be something like what öztürk did or even if it's a very small criminal infraction, any grounds to revoke those visas? and according. to inside higher ed, that's been tracking. >> a lot. >> of those. >> visa revocations. they say as of last. >> night. >> it was nearly. >> 1000 that have already been revoked across the country. >> veronica, how unusual is that? and also the cooperation between dhs and state department, which is the one that's i guess, revoking these. is that unusual as well? >> i mean, it always it. >> is unusual in. >> the sense that they.

>> do work together. >> to make sure that people who have these. visas have. >> the same intent. >> what's unusual is the way that they're going about this to specifically target people for their freedom of speech. >> and when. >> i was a trial attorney. >> this case would be the very case that we would grant asylum to. >> and now. >> we're the. >> ones that are. preventing people from. >> speaking their opinions, writing. >> op eds. and so that. >> is the shift here. >> and julia, meanwhile, being a reporter in the washington post, said the president's goal is to reach 1 million deportations in his first year in office. in a statement, an official from dhs would not confirm this reporting. i guess in 2013, president obama deported 438,000. that was a record at the time. so i seem to remember 1 million would be more than double that. is that something that's possible? is that something that the administration thinks could be achieved?

>> well, that record you mentioned. >> from. >> obama, jose, that still remains the record in part because it's so difficult, especially since the. sanctuary city movement came up. it's so difficult for ice to be able to find people and arrest them and deport them. it takes investigations. it takes tracking them down. oftentimes they're not in the address that they left. it takes enough detention space. that's really the costliest part. >> of the whole equation. >> and then of course, working with courts to get due process, final order of removal, then finally putting them on a plane back to their home country that hopefully will take them back. >> that's the. >> way. >> this used to work, of course, before they started circumventing due process and using military planes. >> and. >> going to places like guantanamo bay and el salvador. but in the end, getting to 1 million seems like it's a very lofty goal. in fact, dhs pushed back on that washington post report and said that that was not their goal. then, just hours later, stephen miller is saying that he does think they could get to a million in a year. >> so the target. >> seems to be moving. >> a. >> little bit, in part because they want to have. >> an ambitious goal. >> in order to. >> drive things like quotas and

ice arrest, but at the same time, they don't want to be pinned to one in case it doesn't live up to that place. but what i'm finding, jose, is. regardless of the numbers. of deportations, when you look at the border numbers, they're at a record low. >> the fear. >> images of people like öztürk being arrested, images like the men being taken off the plane and into the secret prison that is having the biggest deterrent effect about people who would be considering crossing the southern border, far away from people who are being arrested. >> and. >> deported by ice. >> and a lot of fear that indeed has generated julia ainsley, veronica cardenas and david noriega, thank you so very much. we're, of course, keeping our eye on the white house as we await the president of el salvador's arrival. nayib bukele, also still ahead. >> this type. >> of violence is not okay. we have to be better than this. >> pennsylvania governor josh shapiro describing a horrific arson attack at his residence while he and his family were sleeping. look at these

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uncertainty surrounds president trump's tariffs. over the weekend, the trump administration announced it was exempting smartphones, computers and other electronics from the latest round of tariffs on china while keeping an earlier imposed 20% tariff in place on those. the markets. well, there you see them this morning. the dow jones is up about 340 points right now. the situation has been that since the dow opened this morning it's been on the up. however the president now says separate tariffs on products with semiconductor chips could come over the next week, as top aides appear to be sending some mixed signals about the entire situation. so the policy is no exemptions, no exclusions. >> there aren't exemptions. the thing. >> is that we're. >> deciding which things are covered in which bucket. >> they're exempt from the reciprocal tariffs, but they're

included in the semiconductor tariffs which are coming in probably a month or two. and just moments ago, the white house announcing the chipmaking giant nvidia will manufacture its ai supercomputers entirely in the us as part of a pledge to produce $500 billion of ai infrastructure in the united states over the next four years. that is a pretty significant bit of news. with us now, nbc news white house correspondent vaughn hillyard, diane swonk, chief economist for the audit, tax and advisory firm kpmg, and jeremy peters, a new york times reporter and msnbc contributor. so, diane, what do you make of these last week's roller coaster? >> well, that's the problem is it is a roller coaster and it's adding to uncertainty, which is its own tax on the economy. what we're seeing is a. combination of consumers running out and trying to buy things. ahead of tariffs. you're seeing that in

vehicle. >> sales and big. >> ticket items. >> at the same time, many companies. are feeling paralysis. not sure where they should move. >> or not. should they try to. >> hedge these tariffs or not because they don't. >> know what's. >> going to stick. >> and so. >> it's been a. lot of. >> confusion. >> and over time that, as i said, acts as its own tax on the economy. >> even consumers. buying ahead. >> of tariffs. >> that means that they're. >> pulling demand forward. and then that demand won't be there. >> down the road. so what. >> we're really concerned about is anything that looks like. >> it might. >> become a recession as we get into summer. this really could be a summer of our discontent. >> and what do you think would be those initial signs of recession that you're looking out for? >> well. >> what we're watching. >> the. >> most for is. >> two things. one is what. >> kind of price hikes do we eventually see from tariffs. but before that some of the paralysis and a hiring freezes that we're hearing about. now what does that. >> do. >> to employment as we go into

the latter. >> part. >> of spring and. >> early part of summer, we have we are looking at. >> obviously unemployment claims. so far they've held up pretty well. the good news has been the labor market is not falling apart, but we are seeing some pullback in some areas and we. have seen job openings come down as well. this is no longer you want to look for things that are no longer. >> sort of or sort. of a orderly slowdown. >> and what the fed had been. >> hoping would be a soft landing that was all. in place. until we got into the end of march, in early april. >> and so on. is there any sense, meanwhile, on what these tariffs on semiconductors could look like. >> at this point in time? it's not clear exactly what this administration's intent is. howard lutnick, the commerce secretary, suggested this weekend that the semiconductor tariffs will go into effect in the next month or two. and this was in direct response to the exemptions that were provided on saturday and striking form for tablets, some laptops,

smartphones, a vast number of electronic goods coming into the united states from china, and this administration insisting that they are not walking back on their past words when let's be very clear here, the president himself has said in the last months that unlike during his first administration, he would not provide exemptions or exclusions, as he did back in 2018. for apple, for instance, because this time he wants it to be fair across the board in his own u.s. trade representative jamison greer, before the senate finance committee last week said there would be no exemptions and exclusions because a swiss cheese type policy of tariffs would undermine the overall policy. and the goal of this administration, of course, exclusions is exactly what went into effect on saturday. but now i want to let you listen to the president directly on air force one last night previewing this semiconductor tariff and what may or may not be. take a listen. >> well. >> that's going to be announced

very soon and we'll we'll be discussing it. but we'll also talk to companies. you know, you have to show a certain flexibility. nobody should be so rigid. we will have to have a certain flexibility. and we're doing really well. and financially our country is going to be stronger than it's ever been. >> so some products might. >> lose flexibility for some products. >> for some products. yeah. >> maybe again with americans looking at what the price of goods may be and looking at the markets here, this administration continues over the last weeks to change its messaging and its strategy. again, the exact words of the president of the united states just a few weeks ago on this was, quote, this applies to everybody across the board. this is a much simpler way of doing and a much better way when speaking about the potential of exemptions and exclusions. >> so, jerry, i don't know if there is a way of reading the tea leaves. i don't know if tea is on the tariff list. or as

vaughn was saying, a swiss cheese approach to tariffs. again, we've got to see how much swiss cheese is tariff coming into this country. but is there any consistency? is there a strategy that you see here? >> you always have to hold. >> out the possibility that more is going on behind the. scenes in. >> terms of the type. >> of flexibility that president trump was talking about then we actually know. but as far as the markets are concerned, that's of no comfort because what markets don't. >> like is uncertainty. >> and what you. >> have right now. >> in spades is uncertainty. >> i mean, it's. >> just it's raining right now. trust is shaken. and the economy. >> is. >> ultimately about trust. >> and how people feel. >> about. >> making purchases. i mean. >> imagine all of this. >> stuff. >> that's on a. >> boat right now. >> coming over from china. that's going to be hit. >> with these. massive tariffs. >> so you were. >> remodeling a house. >> because you didn't. >> want. to sell your. >> house, because you couldn't

afford to move into. >> a new. >> house with interest. rates as high as they are right now. >> well, now. >> you might put off that remodel. because the. >> cost of. >> appliances and. >> everything else you. >> need is going to soar. and it's not. >> just big ticket. >> items like that. >> it's smaller. >> things like tvs, watches, you know. >> i mean, you. >> name it, the. >> ripple effects. >> of this. >> have yet to. >> become clear to us. >> but what we do know right. >> now is people. are scared. >> you look at the. >> consumer confidence numbers and that's enough to. >> put a chill through the economy. >> i mean, those are like historic drop. >> oh, absolutely. >> yeah. >> i mean. it's really incredible. >> and that doesn't get repaired overnight. that doesn't get. >> repaired certainly. >> by an. >> administration that is saying, oh. >> you know. >> we're switching. >> up the plan. >> actually. >> no, this. >> was the. >> plan all along. we're making exemptions. no. >> there's. >> no exemptions. >> i mean, this this. >> type of muddled messaging really. is not helpful. >> yeah. the muddled messaging i think some in the white house would say is part of the plan. it's just kind of tough to determine where is a muddled

message and no messaging and improvising. but but jeremy, the concept of re changing or changing the world economic order. yeah. is really significant. i'm just wondering is this the way to do it? >> well, i mean, if you want consumers to. >> change their habits, that's going to take. >> some time. i mean, absent. >> something like a. >> pandemic. >> which, you know, we've seen relatively. >> recently, unfortunately. >> these consumer. habits are. ingrained and. >> very, very. >> difficult to change. people have to be. forced to change them. >> so do i foresee a world where people aren't buying. >> as many. >> nikes that are. >> made in china. >> and they're buying. >> something that's more american made? yeah, sure. >> that's always possible. how long. that could take, though, is a whole. separate question. >> yeah. i mean, diane, a billionaire, ray dalio, who founded the world's largest hedge fund and correctly predicted the 2008 recession, told meet the press yesterday that he's worried about, quote, something worse than a recession

if this isn't handled well. back to the jeremy conversation of is it being handled well? how is this uncertainty affecting businesses and how is it going to affect businesses in the long term? >> well, this is one of the things we're really worried about is that the us is now being seen. >> in. >> this trust factor. trust is the oil of a market machine. we do not have a market economy. if you don't have trust and the engine of that machine. seizes up. and that is a very concern. >> i think. >> you're hearing from some senior executives, including ray dalio, looking at the. >> functioning of the. >> treasury bond market. looking at the dollar is still depreciating. >> instead of. >> appreciating that. >> amplifies the. >> effects of tariffs and the inflationary effect and causes. secondary problems for the federal reserve in terms of containing inflation, in a world where. >> you can't just snap your. >> fingers and build everything. >> here, what's been so difficult about what we're. >> seeing out there is that you're.

>> looking at tariffs as a goal, as a silver bullet. for multiple ends. and the problem is it tends to be more of a. >> weapon of mass. >> destruction with a lot of collateral damage. >> and that's. >> what i'm concerned. >> about is. that we. >> don't know exactly how. >> they want to use tariffs. >> on the. >> end game. >> are they. >> just a negotiating tactic? >> are they something that is to really move production home? they don't do well. >> on any. >> of those fronts over time to the extent that they erode trust. >> and trust. >> is so. >> important to an economy. like ours. >> and diane, how significant and important and what's the message here with this nvidia saying they're going to be putting in $500 billion into us production in the next four years. it's not, you know, 10 or 20 years down the line that they're going to be producing their ai computers entirely in the united states. >> it's great if we can get that in here. >> what we worry about. >> is are they. >> going to have the labor force? >> they need. >> to be able to.

>> do that. and that's what we're hearing from a lot of the chip. >> makers that are. >> already setting up business in the united states as well. they're concerned. about labor force and. >> how well. >> trained our labor. >> force. >> is to bring it up to speed, to be able to work in these kinds of plants. this is not, you know, sort of the 1950s, 1960s. kind of plant jobs. >> these are. >> very different kinds. >> of jobs. >> and you don't have as many engineers to be able to do the kinds. >> of jobs that. >> we're looking to do. >> so you really have. to be investing. >> very aggressively in our higher. education system. >> as well. and in fact, we're seeing it move the opposite direction. >> you also have to rely. >> on a lot of. >> very highly. skilled immigrant labor as well. that's not something this. administration would like to do. and so. you really. >> have a lot of things that are. >> conflicting in. >> terms of. >> what is the long term goal and. >> how do we get there. there's no clear roadmap. >> and i think. that's where you're seeing. >> a lot. >> of companies sort of. >> basically say 63%. >> of ceos. now are worried.

>> about the fact the us economy could go into recession. >> and let's go right into live shots for the white house. there you see president nayib bukele being received at the white house. let's listen in. >> we face. >> first. nayib bukele, the first latin american president to visit the white house under president's second term, arriving at the white house, there will be a series of meetings. there will be lunch and a whole lot more between president trump and president bukele, an extraordinary country with a really interesting history and story. it went from being the most violent and bloody country in the americas

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got access to the site, police released a pretty detailed account in the overnight hours, explaining and piecing together what they saw in surveillance video, with what they got and what they learned from the suspect after he turned himself in. they say this is someone who harbored hatred toward governor shapiro, that he walked an hour here, hopped over the fence, and set off multiple molotov cocktails inside. after breaking windows. the governor addressed this yesterday, appearing emotional and not hiding his anger at the act of what he calls a targeted attack that suggested to be political violence. listen to a little bit more of what we heard from governor shapiro. >> lori and i are overwhelmed by the prayers. and the messages of. support that we've received from all across pennsylvania and all across the united states. this kind of violence is becoming far too common in our society, and i don't give a damn

if it's coming from one particular side or the other, directed at one particular party or another, or one particular person or another. it is not okay. >> you mentioned, jose, that the suspect is in custody. we just learned earlier this morning that he's receiving treatment in an area hospital for an incident unrelated to the fire or his arrest. he will be arraigned once he's released from the hospital. jose. >> shaquille brewster, thank you so very much. and turning now to let's go right to the white house. excuse me. where the president of the united states is meeting with the president of el salvador. these are live images as we're seeing there at the office. you see nayib bukele there sitting right by the president of the united states and the salvadoran ambassador to the united nation, to the united states. milena mayorga, then the ambassador to the united states

since 2020. there you see, secretary of state marco rubio, as well as the vice president, attorney general. let's listen in. a friend of mine, because we went through this together and got along very well for my entire period of time. so i knew him as a very young man. now he's just a young man and he's done a fantastic job. mr. president, it's an honor to have you. thank you. mr. both incredibly for your country. and we appreciate working with you because you want to stop crime and so do we. and it's a very, very effective. and i want to just say hello to the people of el salvador and say they have one hell of a president. okay. and i mean that. and i know them well. i know him as a very young man. marco. even younger than you. you know, he started pretty young. >> he'll always. >> be younger. young at heart.

but i want to thank you for the great job you're doing. and i appreciate it. thank you. thank you. well, it's an. >> honor to be here. >> in the oval. >> office with the. >> president and leader of the free world. we're very happy, and we're very eager to help. we know that you have. >> a crime problem. >> and a terrorism problem. >> that you need help with. >> and we're a small country. if we can help, we can do it. and we actually turned the murder capital of the world. that was the journalists call it murder capital of the world, into the safest country in the western hemisphere. and, you know. >> they sometimes they say. >> that we imprison thousands. i like to say that. we actually liberated millions. so. >> you know, like. >> it's very good. who gave him that line? do you think i can use that? >> yes, yes. >> and in fact, in fact, mr. >> president, you. >> have 350 million people to

liberate, but to liberate 350 million people, you have to imprison some. you know, that's the way it works, right? you cannot just, you know, free the. criminals and. >> and think crime's. >> going to go down magically. you have to imprison them so you can liberate 350 million americans that are asking for the end of crime and the end of terrorism. it can be done. >> i mean, it can. >> if you're doing it already. and i'm sure that people. >> have seen the change in the streets. >> a long way to go, because you're just initiating your second term. but it's clear that with the numbers at the border, you know, with the even in democrat. run cities, they get help from from the work you're doing. so i'm really happy to be here, honored and. >> eager to help. >> well, we had a terrible thing happen. we had a an administration that allowed people to come in freely into our country from not only south america, but from all over the world, many from the congo, in

africa, asia, all over the world, europe, rough parts of europe. and they came from prisons and they came from mental institutions, and they came from gangs and the gangs of venezuela and other places and hundreds of thousands and even millions of them came 21 million people all together. but many of the people that came, just a tremendous percentage of them were criminals, in some cases violent criminals. we had 11,088 known murderers, half of them murdered more than one person. this was allowed by a man who what he did to our country is just unbelievable. so we're straightening it out. we're getting them out. but what they did and what that party did to our country, open borders, anybody could come in. as soon as i heard that, i said, every prison is going to be emptied out into our country. that's what happened. and we're straightening it out. and we just had numbers. we had the highest recruiting numbers in

the history of our country, going into police departments. and a year ago we had the lowest numbers. you couldn't hire a changed. nobody's ever. and the military now marines, the army, air force, coast guard, every slot is i mean, we have the best numbers we've ever had. we call it recruitment recruitment numbers. and we've never had anything like it. we had records on every single at every single level. but very important, the policemen, the policemen are joining forces now that we really were having a hard time with policemen because we weren't protecting our police. and we cherish our police, and police are great and the firemen and everybody else, but we have the highest numbers that we've ever had, the most enthusiasm, great enthusiasm. and on trade and other things, we're doing great. we're taking in billions and billions of dollars. we made two weeks ago. i gave him a

little bit of a pause because, you know, you have to show a little flexibility. we go back to what we have to do. the markets have been very strong once they got used to it, but we were losing $2 billion a day. there's no company big like this one. this is the biggest deal ever made. now we're making $3 billion a day. we're a great country. but we had stupid people running this country. and i can say what they've done to us at the border should never and can never be forgotten. it's a sin what they did. and you are helping us out, and we appreciate it. thanks. >> thank you. >> actually, what. >> you're. >> doing with with the border is remarkable. he has done, what, 95%? it's incredible. okay. as of this morning, 99%, 99.1%, to be exact. what are those numbers? not in the media. well, they get out, but the fake news, you know, like cnn, cnn over

here doesn't want to put them out because they don't like they don't like putting out good numbers. they don't like putting out because i think they hate our country, actually. but it's a shame. you're right. isn't that a great question? why doesn't the media, what are they put out? >> numbers 99%. >> i mean, it's. >> crazy, right? >> we're doing a crazy turnaround. christie, could you maybe say a couple of words about the border, how we're doing? >> you know. >> it's just been absolutely phenomenal what a. >> great. >> leader can do. >> clear direction. >> our laws matter. we should only have people in our. country that love us. and the. border patrol and our ice officers and law enforcement officers have done fantastic work, so we're proud of them. now we just need to get the criminals. >> and murderers and. rapists and dangerous gang members and terrorist. >> organizations out of our country. so. >> mr. president, we thank you very much for. >> your partnership. >> it has been wonderful for us to. >> be able. >> to have. >> somewhere to send. >> the worst of the. >> worst and. >> someone to partner with. >> and we'd. >> like. >> to continue that partnership

because it's been a. >> powerful message of consequences. >> mr. president. >> you wanted people. >> to know that there was consequences if you break our. >> laws and harm our people and. >> endanger families. >> and this is a clear consequence. >> for the worst of the worst. >> that we. >> have somewhere to put them. >> thank you very much. yeah. we even have. this gang member from venezuela, one of the ones you sent and we interviewed him just, you know, to get some information, etc, from them. and he said, oh, well, you know, i got arrested. >> six times. >> but they released me six times, so i should be released again. and then they said, well, what's the last thing, last thing you do? and he said, well, i shot a cop in. the leg, but it didn't kill him. it just shot him in the leg. and we're like, this guy was arrested. >> six. >> times here in the united states. six times. he was released. six times, and in the last he was released five times. and the last time he was sent to el salvador. right. so he's not getting released. but the last thing he shot a cop, actually, and he shot him in the leg. so

these are, you know. like i said. yeah. i mean, yeah, there's something broken, the liberal establishment, but they're not running things anymore in this country. and we're run by. and i don't say conservative. i don't say anything. we're run by people with great common sense. >> yeah, common. >> sense, because it's all common sense. it's not liberal conservative. it's common sense. like, do you allow men to play in women's sports? do you allow men to box your women and boxes? i know you have a lot of boxes. that's violence. that's, that's that's abusive. it's abusive. totally. but we have people that fight to the death because they think men should be able to play in women's sports. and some of those sports, it wouldn't matter much, but it still matters. but some of them are very dangerous for women. >> some years. >> ago, some i just said a decade ago or so, women's. >> rights movements. >> were pressuring so that we enacted specific laws to avoid

men abusing women. and i think those laws were brave because there were a lot of men abusing women. but now some of the same people are trying to backtrack and actually trying to make new laws allowing men to abuse women in sports. so actually, that doesn't make sense. >> it doesn't. >> make sense. you know, they have weightlifting lifting records, right? yeah. a woman gets up this way. she's incredible. a guy gets up and beats her by 100 pounds. what are you going to do? a record that hadn't been broken in 18 years. you know, they put on an ounce and an ounce, quarter of an ounce, eighth of an ounce for 18 years. now they have a guy come up pushing. the whole thing is. >> crazy. >> but they continue to fight. and i don't like talking about it because i want to save it for just before the next election. i said, my people don't even talk about it because they'll change and we'll have. but i watch this morning there was a congressman fighting to the death for men to

play against women in sports. and you say to yourself, why? what are they doing? what are they doing? but your country is not too big on that. no, of course not. we're big on protecting women. good. yes. it's very important form of protection. and as you can see, most of my cabinet are women, so that's impressive. yeah. yeah, that's why they're not the hires or anything. they can be great at what they do. right? that's right. this is very impressive. this is the first we've had women, but we've never had three of them right here. four and three. and as the president of el salvador points out, some of the members of his delegation, the one sitting there on the couch include the salvadoran ambassador to the united nations. i want to bring in white house correspondent vaughn hillyard to all of us. vaughn, again, this is live. so the cameras have been allowed in and the two leaders have been discussing all kinds of issues. they focused for a bit on the

issue of immigration and specifically on that high security prison that el salvador runs. >> right. and it's perhaps unremarkable with this white house. the fact that kilmer, abrego, garcia, the man in the middle of ongoing court proceedings over whether he is to return to the united states or whether president kelly will keep him incarcerated in that mega prison. what his fate is, is all tied up in essentially, president kelly's decision making. at this point in time. we will wait to see whether. >> there. >> is a question. >> this may be it. >> yeah. sorry to interrupt, yvonne. let's go for the question portion. the deadline. >> to actually move. >> toward a ceasefire. >> the mistake was letting the war happen. if biden were competent and if zelensky were competent, and i don't know that he is. we had a rough session with this guy over here. he just kept asking for more and more. that war should have never been allowed to happen. that war. i

went four years and putin wouldn't even bring it up. and as soon as. the election was rigged and i wasn't here, that war started. there was no way that war should have been allowed to happen, and biden should have stopped it. and you take a look at putin. i'm not saying anybody's an angel, but i will tell you, i went four years and it wasn't even a question. he would never. and i told him, don't do it. you're not going to do it. and it was the apple of his eye, but there was no way that he would have done it. all you had to do is lower oil prices if you lowered oil prices. biden kept the prices so high because he he made it impossible to get it. if you lowered oil prices, you would have never had the war, but you wouldn't have had it with me anyway. that war would have never happened. and i think it's a great abuse. so now what do you do? you get a country where 25% of its land is gone, and the best locations where millions of people are killed, you know, you haven't reported accurately the death. and this was biden's war.

and i'm trying to stop it. and i think we're going to do a good job. i hope we're going to do they lose 2500 young people a week on average. now they're russians and they're ukrainians, but it's 2000. we don't care. it's like whatever, it is intolerable. they're not from your country, they're not from mine. but i want to stop it. 2500. it's a killing field. it's like the civil war. you take a look. i look at the satellite pictures. this should not be happening in our. in our time. of course, our time can be pretty violent, as we know. but that's a war that should have never been allowed to start. and biden could have stopped it and zelensky could have stopped it. and putin should have never started it. everybody's to blame. >> have you spoken to president zelensky, sir, about his offer to purchase more patriot. >> missile batteries? i don't know, he's always looking to purchase missiles. you know, he's he's against. listen, when

you start a war, you got to know that you can win the war, right? you don't start a war against somebody that's 20 times your size. and then hope that people give you some missiles. if we didn't give them what we gave, remember i gave them javelins. that's how they won their first big battle with the tanks that got stuck in the mud. and they took them out with javelins. they have an expression that obama at the time, obama gave them sheets and trump gave them javelins. but just something that should have never happened. it's a really shame. the towns are destroyed, towns and cities are, you know, largely destroyed. they have the spires, you know, the beautiful spires that go up. they say that were the most beautiful in the world and ukraine, for whatever reason, but the most beautiful in the world. they're mostly laying on their side, shattered and broken. and most importantly, you have millions of people dead, millions of people dead because of three people, i would say three

people, let's say putin number one. but let's say biden, who had no idea what the hell he was doing, number two and zelensky and all i can do is try and stop it. that's all i want to do. i want to stop the killing. and i think we're doing well in that regard. i think you'll have some very good proposals very soon. >> last question, sir. >> have you. >> attributed a motive. for the. >> fbi investigation behind the attack on governor josh. >> shapiro over the weekend? >> no, i haven't, but the attacker was not a fan of trump. i understand just from what i read and from what i've been told, the attacker basically wasn't a fan of anybody. he's probably just a whack job, and certainly a thing like that cannot be allowed to happen. >> but with president. >> bukele. >> the best guarantee that this time you won't terminate the. >> temporary protected status relationship with this man. i have the best relationship with

him. we've known each other. i've known him since he was a very young man, as i said, very, very young. and i was impressed. i said, look, this guy is in fact, you sort of look like a teenager. you look like a teenager. i said, i don't know, good or bad. but he grew up. he grew up well in the last five years. for nationals of el salvador under temporary. >> protected status. >> do you. >> plan to. >> ask him? do you? >> let's hear the question from this very low rated anchor at cbs. >> plan to ask. >> president bush. >> to help return the man who. >> your administration. >> says was mistakenly deported. >> the man. >> who was. >> mistakenly deported to el salvador? >> well, let me ask, pam. would you ask the answer that question, sir? >> president. >> first and. >> foremost. >> he was illegally in our country. he had been illegally in our country. and in 2019, two courts. >> an. >> immigration court. >> and an appellate. immigration

court. >> ruled that he. >> was a member. >> of ms. 13. >> and he was illegally. >> in our country right now. >> it was a paperwork. >> it was additional paperwork. >> that needed to be done. >> that's up. to el salvador. if they want to return him. that's not up to us. the supreme. court ruled, president. >> that if, as el. >> salvador wants to return him, this this. >> is international. >> matters, foreign affairs. if they. >> wanted to return him, we would facilitate it. meaning provide a plane. >> so will. >> you return? >> you are doing a great job. thank you. wait a minute. you just also respond to that question because, you know, it's asked by cnn and they always ask it with a slant because they're totally slanted, because they don't know what's happening. that's why nobody's watching them. but would you answer that question also, please? >> yes, gladly. so as. >> pam mentioned. >> there's an. >> illegal alien. >> from el salvador. >> so with respect. >> to you. >> he's a citizen of el

salvador. so it's very arrogant, even for american media to suggest that we would even. >> tell el. >> salvador how to handle their own citizens as a starting. point as to immigration, courts found that he was a member of ms. 13. when president trump declared ms. 13 to be a foreign terrorist organization, that. meant that. he was no longer eligible under federal law, which i'm sure you know, you're very familiar with the idea that he was no longer eligible for any form of immigration relief in the united states, so we had a deportation order. >> that was. >> valid, which. >> meant that under. >> our law, he's not even allowed to be. present in the united. states and had to be. >> returned because. >> of the foreign terrorist designation. this issue was then by district court judge completely inverted, and a district court judge tried to tell. >> the. >> administration that they had to kidnap a citizen of el salvador and fly him back here. that issue was raised to the supreme court, and the supreme court said the district court order was unlawful and its. main components were reversed nine

zero unanimously stating clearly that neither secretary. >> of state. >> nor. >> the president could. >> be compelled by. >> anybody to forcibly retrieve a citizen of el salvador from el salvador, who again is a member of ms. 13, which is, i'm sure you. >> understand. >> rapes, little girls, murders. >> women. >> murders children. >> is engaged in the most barbaric. activities in. >> the world. and i. can promise you, if he was your neighbor, you would move right away. >> so you don't plan. >> to ask? >> supreme court asking to. >> facilitate in the supreme court. steve, was it nine to nothing? >> yes. it was a90. >> in our favor. >> in our favor against the district court ruling. >> saying that. >> no district court has the power to compel the foreign policy. >> function of the united states. >> as pam. >> said, the ruling solely stated that if this individual, at el salvador, sole. >> discretion. >> was sent back to our country, that we could deport him a second. >> time. >> no version of this legally ends up with him. ever living here because he is a. citizen of el salvador, that is. >> the. >> president of el salvador.

your questions about it, per the court, can only be directed to him. >> i asked. can president. >> bukele weigh in on this? >> do you. >> plan. >> to return him? >> well, i'm not. >> suggesting that. >> i smuggle a terrorist. >> into the united. >> states, but it's only. how can i smuggle? how can i return him to the. >> united states? like i smuggle. >> him into the. >> united states? or what do i do? of course i'm not going to do it. it's like. i mean, the question is preposterous. how can i smuggle a terrorist into the united states? i don't have the power to return him to the united states. >> to release some. >> insight on salvador. yeah, but i'm. >> not releasing. >> i mean, i'm not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country. i mean, we just turn the murder capital of the world into the safest country of the western hemisphere. and you want us to go back into the releasing criminals so we can go back. >> to being the murder. >> capital. >> of the world. and that's that's. >> not going to happen. well, they'd love to have a criminal, you know? i mean, i mean, there's a fascination. they would love it. yeah. they're sick. these are sick people. marco, do you have